International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 16 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Second special issue on action research and variants in project studies and project management

Per Svejvig, Shankar Sankaran, Erik Lindhult

Enhancing the quality of project management through action research

David Coghlan, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Paul Coughlan

The article brings the quality characteristics of action research to project management and explores how these quality characteristics of well-designed and executed action…

Knowledge creation in projects: an interactive research approach for deeper business insight

Annika Engström, Anette Johansson, Nina Edh Mirzaei, Kristina Sollander, Daved Barry

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on different types of knowledge created and how this links to the project design, process, and content.

Conflicting or co-existing logics – doing action research within the framework of a project in a university

Beata Jałocha, Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska, Anna Góral, Piotr Jedynak, Grażyna Prawelska-Skrzypek

The aim of the study was to illustrate how three different institutional logics, present in the implementation of action research, interact in a formalised project, in a…

The value of project management to competitiveness: key factors from a holistic and practical perspective

Cláudia Sousa Silva, Cláudia Pereira, José Magano

The contribution of project success and the organisation's efficiency is consensual in the literature. However, the value of project management (PM) brings to the organisation's…

Using action research in innovation project management: building legitimacy and organizational learning in an SME during a merger process

Constance Elizabeth Kampf, Charlotte J. Brandt, Christopher G. Kampf

The purpose is to explore how the process of action research (AR) can support building legitimacy and organizational learning in innovation project management and portfolio…

Design science research with focus groups – a pragmatic meta-model

Telmo Antonio Henriques, Henrique O’Neill

The purpose of this research paper is to present a pragmatic and systematic approach to conduct and document Design Science Research (DSR) activities with Focus Groups (FGs)…

IT-enabled management of project complexity – An Action Design Research project

Mogens Frank Mikkelsen, Kirsi Aaltonen

Project complexity has been researched much. The majority of publication is searching for law-like relations or development of descriptive frameworks. More prescriptive knowledge…

Methodological considerations in collaborative processes: a case of ethnographic action research

Turid Borgestrand Øien

This paper explores the role and implications of action research (AR) in collaboration and knowledge production between academia and health practices, in a project on lighting and…